Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Infectious Diseases Fellowship, University of Iowa, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine 1992 - 1996
  • Internal Medicine Residency, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Medical School 1989 - 1992
  • M.D., University of Iowa, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine 1989
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Medicine 2017 - 2020
  • Instructor, Temporary in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Medicine 2016 - 2017
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Scynexis - Scy-078 301 awarded by Scynexis Inc 2017 - 2023
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  External Relationships

  • Cardiothoracic Surgery Network, receives funding through the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Saullo, Jennifer L., and Rachel A. Miller. “Cytomegalovirus Therapy: Role of Letermovir in Prophylaxis and Treatment in Transplant Recipients.” Annu Rev Med 74 (January 27, 2023): 89–105. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-med-042921-124739.
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    • Carugati, Manuela, Sana Arif, Debra Lynn Sudan, Bradley Henry Collins, John Carroll Haney, Jacob Niall Schroder, John Michael Reynolds, et al. “Epidemiology of surgical site infections after solid organ transplants in the period 2015-2019: A single-center retrospective cohort study.” Am J Transplant 22, no. 12 (December 2022): 3021–30. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajt.17189.
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    • Saharia, Kapil K., Shweta Anjan, Judy Streit, Susan E. Beekmann, Philip M. Polgreen, Matthew Kuehnert, Dorry L. Segev, John W. Baddley, Rachel A. Miller, and Rachel A. EIN COVID-19 Study Team. “Clinical characteristics of COVID-19 in solid organ transplant recipients following COVID-19 vaccination: A multicenter case series.” Transpl Infect Dis 24, no. 2 (April 2022): e13774. https://doi.org/10.1111/tid.13774.
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    • Saullo, Jennifer L., and Rachel A. Miller. “Updates on Histoplasmosis in Solid Organ Transplantation.” Curr Fungal Infect Rep 16, no. 4 (2022): 165–78. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12281-022-00441-1.
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    • Qin, Caroline X., Linda W. Moore, Shweta Anjan, Ruth Rahamimov, Costi D. Sifri, Nicole M. Ali, Megan K. Morales, et al. “Risk of Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Adult Transplant Recipients.” Transplantation 105, no. 11 (November 1, 2021): e265–66. https://doi.org/10.1097/TP.0000000000003907.
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    • Hardie, Rochelle, Suhail K. Mithani, Nitipong Permpalung, and Rachel A. Miller. “Tenosynovitis in a renal transplant recipient: Making the diagnosis firsthand.” Am J Transplant 21, no. 9 (September 2021): 3196–98. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajt.16623.
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    • Miller, Rachel A. “Preventing Pulmonary Aspergillosis: Can We Breathe Easy?” Transplantation 104, no. 12 (December 2020): 2473–74. https://doi.org/10.1097/TP.0000000000003188.
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    • Mourad, Ahmad, Sana Arif, Muath Bishawi, Carmelo Milano, Rachel A. Miller, and Stacey A. Maskarinec. “Surgical infection prophylaxis prior to left ventricular assist device implantation: A survey of clinical practice.” J Card Surg 35, no. 10 (October 2020): 2672–78. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocs.14882.
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    • Saullo, Jennifer L., and Rachel A. Miller. “Update on Nocardia infections in solid-organ transplantation.” Curr Opin Organ Transplant 25, no. 4 (August 2020): 383–92. https://doi.org/10.1097/MOT.0000000000000793.
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    • Miller, Rachel A., and Barbara D. Alexander. “Editorial: Infections of the immunocompromised host: a musing on the changing times.” Curr Opin Infect Dis 33, no. 4 (August 2020): 279–80. https://doi.org/10.1097/QCO.0000000000000660.
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    • Permpalung, Nitipong, Tany Thaniyavarn, Jennifer L. Saullo, Sana Arif, Rachel A. Miller, John M. Reynolds, and Barbara D. Alexander. “Oral and Inhaled Ribavirin Treatment for Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Lung Transplant Recipients.” Transplantation 104, no. 6 (June 2020): 1280–86. https://doi.org/10.1097/TP.0000000000002985.
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    • Saullo, Jennifer L., Yanhong Li, Julia A. Messina, Jillian Thompson, Tara Dalton, Vinay K. Giri, Shelby D. Reed, et al. “Cytomegalovirus in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Transplantation: Impact on Costs and Clinical Outcomes Using a Preemptive Strategy.” Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 26, no. 3 (March 2020): 568–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbmt.2019.11.005.
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    • Chung, Shimin Jasmine, Rachel Ann Miller, Nitipong Permpalung, Arthur Wakefield Baker, Louis Frederic Diehl, David Alan Rizzieri, and Barbara Dudley Alexander. “Fluoroquinolone prophylaxis reduces febrile neutropenia, bloodstream infections from mucosal translocations, and intensive care admissions in high risk hematological patients, a single center experience.” Leuk Lymphoma 60, no. 2 (February 2019): 488–92. https://doi.org/10.1080/10428194.2018.1488252.
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    • Shaw, Brian I., Aditya J. Nanavati, Vanessa Taylor, Rachel A. Miller, Matthew Kappus, and Andrew S. Barbas. “Donor derived HSV hepatitis in a kidney transplant recipient leading to liver fibrosis and portal hypertension.” Transpl Infect Dis 21, no. 1 (February 2019): e13029. https://doi.org/10.1111/tid.13029.
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    • Miller, Geraldine, Heidi Schaefer, Sandra Yoder, Rachel Miller, Patricia Winokur, Karen Kotloff, David Klassen, Michael Wierzbicki, Cyrille Amegashie, and Kathryn Edwards. “A randomized, placebo-controlled phase I trial of live, attenuated herpes zoster vaccine in subjects with end-stage renal disease immunized prior to renal transplantation.” Transpl Infect Dis 20, no. 3 (June 2018): e12874. https://doi.org/10.1111/tid.12874.
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    • Miller, R. A. “A Case for Antifungal Stewardship.” Current Fungal Infection Reports 12, no. 1 (March 1, 2018): 33–43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12281-018-0307-z.
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    • Mathur, Gagan, Kunal Yadav, Bradley Ford, Ilana J. Schafer, Sridhar V. Basavaraju, Barbara Knust, Wun-Ju Shieh, et al. “High clinical suspicion of donor-derived disease leads to timely recognition and early intervention to treat solid organ transplant-transmitted lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus.” Transplant Infectious Disease 19, no. 4 (August 2017): e12707–e12707. https://doi.org/10.1111/tid.12707.
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    • Singh, Nina, Costi D. Sifri, Fernanda P. Silveira, Rachel Miller, Kevin S. Gregg, Shirish Huprikar, Erika D. Lease, et al. “Unique characteristics of cryptococcosis identified after death in patients with liver cirrhosis: comparison with concurrent cohort diagnosed antemortem.” Med Mycol 55, no. 3 (April 1, 2017): 278–84. https://doi.org/10.1093/mmy/myw079.
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    • Beaird, O. E., A. Freifeld, M. G. Ison, S. J. Lawrence, N. Theodoropoulos, N. M. Clark, R. R. Razonable, et al. “Current practices for treatment of respiratory syncytial virus and other non-influenza respiratory viruses in high-risk patient populations: a survey of institutions in the Midwestern Respiratory Virus Collaborative.” Transplant Infectious Disease 18, no. 2 (April 2016): 210–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/tid.12510.
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    • Singh, Nina, Costi D. Sifri, Fernanda P. Silveira, Rachel Miller, Kevin S. Gregg, Shirish Huprikar, Erika D. Lease, et al. “Cryptococcosis in Patients With Cirrhosis of the Liver and Posttransplant Outcomes.” Transplantation 99, no. 10 (October 2015): 2132–41. https://doi.org/10.1097/tp.0000000000000690.
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    • Vergidis, Paschalis, Robin K. Avery, L Joseph Wheat, Jennifer L. Dotson, Maha A. Assi, Smyrna A. Antoun, Kassem A. Hamoud, et al. “Histoplasmosis Complicating Tumor Necrosis Factor–α Blocker Therapy: A Retrospective Analysis of 98 Cases.” Clinical Infectious Diseases 61, no. 3 (August 1, 2015): 409–17. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/civ299.
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    • Miller, R., S. Covington, S. Taranto, R. Carrico, A. Ehsan, B. Friedman, M. Green, et al. “Communication Gaps Associated With Donor-Derived Infections.” American Journal of Transplantation 15, no. 1 (February 2015): 259–64. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajt.12978.
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    • Miller, R. “Solid organ transplant donors with central nervous system infections.” Transplantation 98, no. 6 (September 27, 2014): 666–70.
    • Gelijns, Annetine C., Alan J. Moskowitz, Michael A. Acker, Michael Argenziano, Nancy L. Geller, John D. Puskas, Louis P. Perrault, et al. “Management practices and major infections after cardiac surgery.” J Am Coll Cardiol 64, no. 4 (July 29, 2014): 372–81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2014.04.052.
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    • Schafer, Ilana J., Rachel Miller, Ute Ströher, Barbara Knust, Stuart T. Nichol, and Pierre E. Rollin. “Notes From the Field: A Cluster of Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus Infections Transmitted Through Organ Transplantation—Iowa, 2013.” American Journal of Transplantation 14, no. 6 (June 2014): 1459–1459. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajt.12802.
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    • Assi, M., S. Martin, L. J. Wheat, C. Hage, A. Freifeld, R. Avery, J. W. Baddley, et al. “Histoplasmosis After Solid Organ Transplant.” Clinical Infectious Diseases 57, no. 11 (December 1, 2013): 1542–49. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/cit593.
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    • Miller, R., and M. Assi. “Endemic Fungal Infections in Solid Organ Transplantation.” American Journal of Transplantation 13 (March 2013): 250–61. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajt.12117.
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    • Miller, R. A., S. D. Burdette, M. Levi, S. E. Beekmann, P. M. Polgreen, and M. J. Kuehnert. “Communication gaps for solid organ transplant-transmitted infections among infectious disease physicians: an Emerging Infections Network survey.” Transplant Infectious Disease 15, no. 1 (February 2013): 8–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/tid.12002.
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    • Grim, S. A., L. Proia, R. Miller, M. Alhyraba, A. Costas-Chavarri, J. Oberholzer, and N. M. Clark. “A multicenter study of histoplasmosis and blastomycosis after solid organ transplantation.” Transplant Infectious Disease 14, no. 1 (February 2012): 17–23. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-3062.2011.00658.x.
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    • Wibbenmeyer, Lucy, Ingrid Williams, Junlin Liao, Jason Heard, Gerald Patrick Kealey, and Rachel Miller. “A Pilot Study of the Use of Biocide-Impregnated Gauze as an Adjunct to Wound Care in a Burn Population.” Journal of Burn Care &Amp; Research 33, no. 3 (2012): 358–63. https://doi.org/10.1097/bcr.0b013e31823746d2.
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    • Miller, R. A. “unique characteristics of cryptococcosis identified after death in patients with liver cirrhosis,” n.d.

  • Conference Papers

    • Permpalung, N., T. Thaniyavarn, J. H. Saullo, S. Arif, R. A. Miller, J. M. Reynolds, and B. D. Alexander. “Impact of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection on Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome in Lung Transplant Recipients.” In The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 38:S312–13. Elsevier BV, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healun.2019.01.788.
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